Credits

Protomartyr - Primary Artist

Precious

If you are looking for a rock album with a really dark edge to it, but without all the camp and silliness of some extreme metal music for instance, you can hardly get better than this. A rock-solid rhythm section builds a foundation for a consistently interesting and original guitar work by Greg Ahee. But at the center of the band's is Joe Casey with his lyrics and vocal delivery. While not a great singer in conventional terms, he is largely responsible for a bizarre and deeply unsettling vibe of the songs which is only intensified by his very suggestive, sardonic lyrics. Check out "Pontiac 87" or "Cowards Starve" or almost anything else on the album. In "Dope Cloud" Casey repeatedly insists: "That's not gonna save you man". It's not, but you should still listen to the album!